22/08/2026
2026 Rally Tasmania was one of the tricker events that we have contested in, in recent times with a few issues across both days but thankfully that didn’t stop us from bringing home some strong results! 💪🏻
On Saturday we got off to a good start, a spin and some minor cutting out issues with the car couldn’t stop us, only dropping around 30 seconds for the day.
On Sunday it was a bit of a different story. The second stage of the day we hit a massive dip in the road that we didn’t think was going to be that bad but unfortunately it was enough to break the exhaust manifold and combined with grease from a blown CV boot it started a small fire which then partially melted the rocker cover gasket causing oil to continuously leak onto the exhaust for the rest of the day. It became a worry for the remaining 6 stages but we decided to take it a bit easier as we had a decent gap to the car behind. With no anti-lag for the remaining of the day to keep exhaust temperatures down, we managed the problem and made it to the end to bring home 4th outright in the Australian Rally Championship, 1st in the Wolf Sports Cup and 1st in Tasmanian Rally Championship! 🥇
Huge thank you to the Les Walkden and his awesome team for helping us again for the weekend, it’s always a pleasure to be apart of such a professional team, thanks to Brad for doing an awesome job on the notes as always and a massive thank you Lauren behind the scenes for all the social media work she does, not just for us but for the TRC page as well. 👏🏻
Thank you to our sponsors, supporters and anyone else that helped out over the weekend, without those people we wouldn’t be able to do what do. 👏🏻
As this is probably our only ARC outing for the year, our final round for the year will be on the 7th of November which which is the final round of the Tasmanian Rally Championship! 💪🏻
See you all there! 👋🏻
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